Comment on FR Doc # 2011-00469

Document ID: FWS-R3-ES-2010-0050-0007
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Fish And Wildlife Service
Received Date: February 14 2011, at 07:27 PM Eastern Standard Time
Date Posted: March 28 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: January 19 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: March 21 2011, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80bee8ea
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Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Endangered Status for Sheepnose and Spectaclecase Mussels

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I have encountered many recently dead individuals of sheepnose mussels (Plethobasus cyphyus) on the lower Holston River in the past 10 years. I have never surveyed or looked for live individuals but would suspect a population to still exist on a couple shoals I know. Didn't know if you were aware of this population? I study mussels and have peer reviewed papers published on preimpoundment mussels species from this stretch of river. The shells I have found were quite recent dead. Please contact me if more information is wanted. I have found both aboriginal and recent valves of P. cyphyus.

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Comment on FR Doc # 2011-00469
Public Submission Posted: 02/07/2011 ID: FWS-R3-ES-2010-0050-0003